From the Trenches World Report

The Organic Prepper – by Karen Morris

Seven years ago almost to the day during a Good Friday church service, my cell phone rang.  I promptly turned the ringer off – It was the middle of the service. A few moments later, It rang again.  I turned the phone’s ringer off again, and this time I sat on it. Yeah, I know. You see, my phone made a loud noise when it was turned completely off, so I didn’t want to do that. Fortunately, the service was just about over.  So as soon as it was finished, I pulled my phone out and looked to see who had called. It was my mother. Yeah, not good turning the phone off on your mom! So I called her back only to hear her panicked voice, “Karen, are you okay?  Is everyone unhurt?”   Continue reading “The Aftermath: What It’s Really Like After Your Home Is Hit by a Tornado”

The Organic Prepper – by Daisy Luther and M.K. Matthews

By now, unless you have been living in a Wifi-free deadzone, you’ve heard about the hundreds of billions in tariffs that the United States and China are flinging at one another like ninja throwing stars. When you’re hearing numbers like “100 billion dollars” it may seem like this is in an entirely different universe than the one in which you exist.

Unfortunately, that’s incorrect.   Continue reading “The Tariff War Will Affect the Prices and Availability of THESE Items”

Freedom Outpost – by Suzanne Hamner

America, it’s time to talk about ex post facto laws.  Why has the time come to talk about such things and understand it?  States, municipalities, and Congress are moving toward passing laws and ordinances against gun ownership that could move into ex post facto laws.  For example;  in the town of Deerfield, Illinois, the Board of Trustees passed an ordinance that banned certain “assault-type” weapons, large magazines that hold over 10 rounds, and semi-automatic pistols capable of holding over 10 rounds, requiring residents to turn in those firearms to government or face a fine of $250 to $1,000 per day per gun.
Continue reading “It’s Time To Talk About Ex Post Facto Laws & Resistance To Tyranny”

Post and Courier

A South Carolina Republican congressman is not backing down from critics after he pulled out his own personal — and loaded — .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun during a meeting with constituents Friday.

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, R-Rock Hill, told The Post and Courier he pulled out the weapon and placed it on a table for several minutes in attempt to make a point that guns are only dangerous in the hands of criminals.   Continue reading “U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman pulls out loaded gun in constituent meeting to make point about safety”

Firearms Policy Coalition

SACRAMENTO, CA (April 6, 2018) — Firearms Policy Coalition today announced that it had acquired new “mock-up” language for California Assembly Bill 2382 (AB 2382), currently a bill authored by Asm. Mike Gipson (D – Carson) to expand the definition of “firearm” and “receiver,” that would enact a radical and far-reaching new regulatory scheme by treating non-firearm parts, components, and even some raw materials in a virtually-identical manner as Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 63 and Senator Kevin de Leon’s SB 1235 (2016) did with ammunition. FPC called the broad reach and implications of the disturbing amendments “staggering.”   Continue reading “Amendments to Calif. “Ghost Gun” Bill Would Enact “Staggering” New Firearms Parts Regulations”

AlterNet – by Domenica Ghanem

At a recent rally in New Hampshire, Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug traffickers as part of a plan to combat the opioid epidemic in the United States. At a Pennsylvania rally a few weeks earlier, he called for the same.

Now his administration is taking steps toward making this proposal a reality. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on March 21 asking prosecutors to pursue capital punishment for drug traffickers — a power he has thanks to legislation passed under President Bill Clinton.   Continue reading “If You Want to Kill Drug Dealers, Start With Big Pharma”

The New Observer

There has been a 203 percent increase in the number of nonwhite invaders trying to smash their way into the United States over the Mexico border in the past year, new figures from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have revealed.

A statement from the DHS’s Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton said that the “crisis at our Southwest border is real. The number of illegal border crossings during the month of March shows an urgent need to address the ongoing situation at the border.   Continue reading “203% Increase in Invaders from Mexico to US from 2017 to 2018”

“…When Darkness and Disorder Began to Reign in a Kingdom…
                …There Appeared the Loyal Ministers.”

– The Tao Teh Ching

Eighteen more Palestinians were unapologetically murdered this past “Good Friday”  by the Israeli military. They were unarmed. They were on their own land. They were desperate.  They screamed their desperation as they marched. Then, they shouted their daily reality of personal horrors too close to Israel’s attention. So, they were killed.  Continue reading “The Good Friday Massacre: World…We Are All Palestinians, Now!”

Fellowship of the Minds – by Dr. Eowyn

On Tuesday night, April 3, 2018, Hillary Clinton visited The Wing, an elite women’s club in Manhattan, New York (see The Wing’s enthralled tweet).  Continue reading “Hillary Clinton visits witches’ coven in Manhattan”

Fox News

A judge in Massachusetts on Friday ruled against a lawsuit that questioned the state’s ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines, declaring that the weapons were not protected by the Second Amendment.

Assault weapons are considered to be military firearms, U.S. District Judge William Young said in his ruling, therefore disqualifying them from being included in a citizen’s right to “bear arms.”   Continue reading “Massachusetts’ ban on assault weapons doesn’t violate 2nd Amendment, judge rules”

Who are we and what do we believe?

We, the members of the International Criminals Union, declare our position that all free and sovereign nations unite to ban the possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens.

It is our belief that our profession becomes more dangerous without strong and strict laws to regulate and prevent law-abiding citizens from possessing firearms. When only criminals and police can own a firearm our union’s potential for growth will be unsurpassed.   Continue reading “Criminals for Gun Control”

Yahoo News

SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean court jailed former President Park Geun-hye for 24 years on Friday over a scandal that exposed webs of corruption between political leaders and the country’s conglomerates.

Park became South Korea’s first democratically elected leader to be forced from office last year when the Constitutional Court ordered her out over a scandal that landed the heads of two conglomerates in jail.   Continue reading “South Korean court jails former president Park for 24 years”

There will be no broadcast of The Word From the Trenches today.

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